From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: no C-h i m emacs ?? Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:02:14 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87oas42mmx.fsf@reader.local.lan> References: <87egt14r51.fsf@reader.local.lan> <20141117192327064939495@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416348193 31047 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2014 22:03:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:03:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 23:03:01 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqqrU-0006f1-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:03:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55616 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqqrU-0000XW-04 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:03:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqqr7-0000X6-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:02:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqqqy-00088u-Sf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:02:37 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqqqy-00088g-N3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:02:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqqqx-0006Pt-AL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:02:27 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([76.97.127.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:02:27 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:02:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+AaoNg+CAWNsBoZRAcY5PX4RWSM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101038 Archived-At: Bob Proulx writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> So with all this installed: >> >> aps emacs|grep ^i >> i emacs-goodies-el - Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs >> i A emacs24-bin-common - GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture de >> i A emacs24-common - GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture in >> i emacs24-el - GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files >> i emacs24-lucid - GNU Emacs editor (with Lucid GUI support) >> i A emacsen-common - Common facilities for all emacsen >> >> I still have no emacs-info files. > > I posted about this recently. Please see this: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2014-07/msg00140.html > > To install the info files enable non-free in sources.list and then > install the emacs24-common-non-dfsg package. After seeing the response to my query.... I was amazed that I had missed this old issue for yrs now. Wondering how I missed noticing this problem for yrs .... Finally I realized that I haven't used a pre-packaged emacs for years but always built from source... even having both debian pkg installed to satisfy Debians pkg requirements but all the while instinctively setting paths in site-start.el to the built and compiled version installed from git or bzr in a --prefix=[...]. So, of course, the info files were available. Consequently I've been unburdened by what appears to be a baloney argument until now. I got lazy and now see the error of my ways [...] OK, building my own 24.4 as well as 25.... stepping around the issue.